The Land of the Great Image: Historical Narrative

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A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. The holy sacraments, such as Holy Communion and Baptism, which only the priest could administer, had been understood as the authentic avenues of God’sgrace, not available outside the Church or apart from the ministry of an ordained priest. Today, while the traditional forms of colonization that marked the Great Land Rush are no longer practiced by the European powers and their progeny in the new world, the legacy of this period can be seen in the western powers' insatiable thirst for economic growth, including newer forms of economic colonization of underdeveloped countries, and a continuing evolution of the concepts of property rights, including the development and increasing growth in importance of intellectual property rights. For they point to the presence of America in the world’s imagination as an idea, as a land of hope, of refuge and opportunity, of a second chance at life for those willing to take it.Ability to add mortgage to existing banking profile and make automatic payments from linked account. It would all be undermined and banished by a series of rude disruptions, including massively death-dealing plagues, fierce intrachurch quarrels, and growing secular and national sentiments, conditions culminating in the great upheaval of the Protestant Reformation, which shattered the religious unity of Europe forever. Others, however, moved into more settled forms of habitation, adopting the practice of agriculture and, in some cases, eventually developing into highly advanced cultures.

It could not be some number of good works that the believer was thought to have performed in atonement for sins committed, because no number of good works could be enough to offset that person’s transgressions. One of the worst sins of the present – not just ours but any present – is its tendency to condescend toward the past, which is much easier to do when one doesn’t trouble to know the full context of that past or try to grasp the nature of its challenges as they presented themselves at the time. Far less grand but just as intriguing are the remains of the North American settlements, such as those of the Adena and Hopewell cultures, that left large earthworks and burial mounds scattered across the landscape of the American East and Midwest, still readily visible today in ordinary places like Chillicothe, Ohio, or Romney, West Virginia. A critique of the greatest reallocation of resources in the history of the world and an analysis of its effects on indigenous peoples, the growth of property rights, and the evolution of ideas that make up the foundation of the modern world.

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At a time when the English were too preoccupied with their own internal divisions and near-constant conflicts with the French to explore empire building, the Spanish were rising to their greatest political and civilizational heights, enjoying a period of unprecedented flourishing in the arts and literature as well as a free hand to explore and exploit the resources of the New World. The Reformation was like an earthquake whose tremblings radiated out in unpredictable ways through much of the world. They are the basis of our common life, the webs of meaning in which our shared identities are suspended.

Although praising the inclusion of Cirque du Soleil, he thought of The Great Land of Small as one of Demers' least successful films.